Wang Quanzhang is a lawyer. He spent four and a half years in jail for doing his job. It says a lot about the state of the rule of law in China when even lawyers are persecuted for representing victims. He is no exception. In a nationwide operation in summer 2015, the Chinese authorities rounded up…
By Eric Martin (Bloomberg) —President Joe Biden’s chief trade negotiator pledged to build off the deal with China reached under Donald Trump and said that tariff removal will depend on the outcome of upcoming conversations with her counterparts.The Biden administration respects the continuity of the so-called phase-one agreement, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a…
By Yukon Huang, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Joshua Levy, a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.In March, U.S. President Joe Biden announced a plan to invest more than $2 trillion in repairing and building new infrastructure in the United States. In his remarks to introduce what…
Michael Bloomberg, Henry Kissinger and Hank Paulson have picked Singapore over Beijing for their next annual conference on US-China relations.Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and owner of the eponymous financial information group, told the Financial Times that “logistics”, including Singapore’s Covid-19 safety record and the “very concerning” conditions in China for journalists, had…
OTTAWA – Upholstered furniture from China and Vietnam sold in Canada now is subject to country-wide duties of 295.5% and 101.5%, respectively, after a preliminary determination of dumping by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.CITT found “reasonable indication” that dumping and subsidizing of upholstered seating made in China and Vietnam has or is threating to damage…
On Wednesday, a member of the Arizona election audit team that has been heavily touted by former President Donald Trump revealed that its examination of the 2020 vote in Maricopa County will include a “forensic” analysis of ballots to determine if the paper is made of bamboo—in order to determine whether or not China delivered…
Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) is negotiating agreements with a U.S. national security panel that would allow it to keep its ownership stakes in U.S. video game developers Riot Games and Epic Games, according to people familiar with the matter.Tencent has been in talks with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which…
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – If you sue China, don’t bother mailing the service process.Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch recently learned the hard way that the government would reject it.About a year after filing suit against the nation of more than a billion people, Fitch has been given more time to serve process, after the Chinese…
A weekly digest of the stories you should be following in China this week, plus exclusive analysis, written by Foreign Policy’s senior editor and former Beijing correspondent James Palmer. Delivered Wednesday.Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief.The highlights this week: An offensive Weibo post triggers a backlash in India, what to believe about China’s population numbers,…
China expressed concern on Wednesday over India’s move to not grant any Chinese firm permission to participate in 5G trials in the world’s second-largest internet market as the two neighboring nations struggle to navigate business ties amid their geo-political tensions.India’s Department of Telecommunications earlier this week approved over a dozen firms’ applications to conduct a…
